The Mitsubishi A6M Zero was among the aircrafts used in ... of Germany's widely produced planes and was the country's only fighter plane powered by a radial engine. In its base configuration ...

Still, not every WWII fighter plane can be as successful as Japan's Mitsubishi A6M "Zero," the North American P-51 Mustang, or the German Messerschmitt Bf 109. The unfortunate reality of airplane ...

In the Allies' first major offensive against the Japanese during World War II, he also survived a close call: After he took out one Japanese Zero fighter in his first dogfight on Oct. 13 ...

The majority of U.S. aces served in World War II, and moreover ... the Allied codename for the Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero fighter … The Japanese navy was not active in New Guinea at that time ...